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Group Medical Director, Patient Safety

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Overview AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok.

Purpose Group Medical Director manages other Associate Medical Directors, Medical Directors, and Senior Medical Directors. Leads Product Safety Teams (PST) and PST leads (and could support one large product as the PST Lead) and ensures safety of late stage and post marketing hematology-oncology portfolio (e.g., surveillance, signal detection, validation and assessment). Interpreting regulations related to pharmacovigilance supporting all patient safety activities. Experts on hematology-oncology late stage group of assets with similar mechanism of action (overarching across assets).

Responsibilities

Connectors within R&D particularly with key functions (Reg, ASL, Risk Mgt, etc)

Asset strategy lead safety representatives for larger programs (late stage)

Understand MOA in close collaboration with preclinical, clinical pharmacy, clinical development, and discovery

Work closely with Executive Medical Director to establish safety strategy for each indication and across assets with similar MOA

Lead and guide the safety physicians on data review (clinical and beyond) and interpretations across assets with similar MOA

Proactively seek to understand “WHY” a safety concern or risk emerges and “How” to mitigate it

Understand and apply pharmacology and chemistry to effectively conduct safety surveillance

Responsible for safety surveillance for pharmaceutical / biological / drug – device combined products

Lead and set the strategy for key pharmacovigilance documents, including medical safety assessments, regulatory responses, and risk management plans

Apply current regulatory guidance as appropriate for safety surveillance and authorship of PV documents

Analyze and interpret aggregate safety data and communicate these analyses to cross-functional teams

Effectively write, review and provide input on technical documents independently

Oversight and responsibility for leading the strategy for periodic reports (PSURs, PADERs, etc.)

Oversight of safety surveillance and pharmacovigilance activities for products in clinical trials and post marketing

Responsible for implementing risk management strategies for assigned products

Proactively engaging, inspiring, coaching and mentoring team and colleagues

Manages other Associate Medical Directors, Medical Directors, Senior Medical Directors: performance and talent management, coaching and development

Assumes responsibility for coordinating and overseeing safety related activities at a product level across multiple indications or multiple related products for the same indication

Qualifications

MD / DO with 2+ years of patient management experience

Master of Public Health or PhD is in addition to MD / DO, not required

8 - 10 years of Pharmacovigilance / Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry

Ability to analyze and guide analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information

Ability to present recommendations / opinions in group settings both internally and externally

Write, review and provide input on technical documents

Work collaboratively and lead cross-functional teams

Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment

Fluency, both written and oral, in English

Evaluate and make independent decisions; ability to work effectively amid uncertainty and complexity, and to multitask

Experiences / Leadership traits

Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues with different areas of expertise (e.g., epidemiology, statistics)

Ability to make independent decisions

Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders internal and across industry and regulatory authorities

Clear understanding of PV and clinical development and monitoring clinical trial and post-marketing safety

Respect for other opinions and inclusivity of different points of view

Additional Information

Compensation is described as the range of possible base pay for this role at posting based on job grade; individual compensation depends on factors including location and may vary from the posted range. The range may be modified in the future.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) for eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in short-term and long-term incentive programs.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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